Sentence examples for school amount from inspiring English sources

If fixed-period exclusions (ie not permanent) in a secondary school amount to more than 10% of the school population, you should be concerned, or 1% in a primary school".

However, these random contacts, largely in passing periods during school, amount to less than 3% of the total contact-level-hours per-person-per-day.

Furthermore, detailed information on the degree of exposure before (allowing an assessment of fulfilment of inclusion criteria) and during (eg mode of transportation to school, amount of bicycling to school, amount of bicycling beyond commuter bicycling, commuter bicycling intensity, general physical activity level) the study is advantageous.

This, says the school, amounts to 25% of its curriculum.

I have student loans from graduate school amounting to sixty thousand dollars.

All told, the school amounted to a $60 investment for the desert nomads who have now settled in the area.

But gay-friendly schools have also met resistance from members of the gay community who believe that such schools amount to segregation, simply sheltering gay youth from the realities of homophobia while letting mainstream schools off the hook.

His father, having little means, hired him out to more prosperous backwoods farmers, and Davy's schooling amounted to 100 days of tutoring with a neighbour.

Because that's what going to one of Britain's great public schools amounts to: a Willy Wonka golden ticket to life, the universe and everything.

He once said that, as a boy, he had gone to school "by littles"—a little now and a little then and his entire schooling amounted to no more than one year's attendance.

Earlier in June, a six-year investigation found that the Canadian policy of forcibly separating aboriginal children from their families and sending them to residential schools amounted to cultural genocide that continues to reverberate through aboriginal society.